Seth Godin Quotes
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.
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All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.
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Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
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The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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The job is not the work.
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A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.